Branton J. Campbell

Professor

Research Interests

I apply state-of-the-art x-ray and neutron
scattering techniques to study local and long-range structures in a
variety of complex solids, including fast-ion conductors, ferroelectric
relaxors, high-temperature superconductors, and colossal
magnetoresistive manganites, where nanoscale structural features
influence macroscopic physical properties. This includes the
development of symmetry-mode analysis as a tool for the determination,
refinement and interpretation of distorted structures involving lattice
strains, atomic displacements, magnetic moments and occupational
orderings at both commensurate and incommensurate wavevectors.